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Ulster Hospital’s artist-in-residence brings joy and recovery through art therapy to children in hospital
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09/08/2024
Ulster Hospital’s artist-in-residence brings joy and recovery through art therapy to children in hospital
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As part of our overall play service we use art a lot for therapeutic means as well and
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the benefits of using art and art materials and creativity just helps really promote the
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imagination in a child's play. Artscare provide artists that work in arts and health settings
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across Northern Ireland so we go into a lot of the hospitals and the day centres. Within the
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Ulster Hospital I work as an artist who will go to the bedside of the children
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and the aim of that really is to provide a wee bit of a distraction for the children whenever
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they're maybe waiting to go into theatre or come out of theatre and maybe in a wee bit of pain or
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discomfort so having something to focus on like the art materials and having a wee bit of a chat
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with them at the same time takes their mind off. Jill's service today with Freya has been
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really lovely. Luckily Freya's only here for a short term and you expect something like this
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to be really for like longer term patients so it's nice for Freya to have a bit of a distraction
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and some hands-on play without just being stuck to her iPad for her entire stay. We've had some
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lovely family pieces made with like siblings that have both been on the ward at the same time
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and then it's encouraged their parents to get involved and all of this continues to help
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reduce their anxiety but it also helps aid their recovery time. Just try to get right to the
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bedside so the the children don't have to to go anywhere and sort of feel relaxed there usually
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their parents are with them which is great and quite often the parents will get involved as
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well which is you know it's obviously a very stressful time for them too you know. We also
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have a dancer who would come in, the clown doctors come in, they're part of the arts care team
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which is great fun for the children and we have a storyteller that comes in
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and also all go into the sort of the bedside or down into this playroom area as well.
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